she might not today no i mean there are indications from people in the foreign affairs committee that they think it's likely that she will do in the fullness of time it is quite difficult for a must admit i mean if you mention the living yank a case in two thousand and six after he was murdered there's the government then of david cameron spent a very long time looking like they were trying to do something while actually doing absolutely nothing about it at all and that was because at that time it was just seen that russia was too important to wind up in that sense now clearly that was that was before ukraine happened and crimea was annexed and they brought down the jets their proxies fighting in the east and ukraine it was before russia really dug in in syria as well. and so in that sense it might have felt at the times of the government that you know even though they knew the russian dunnies the mean that they couldn't do anything about it now because of all those things in the meantime as rory was saying there's not much left to salvage and other countries which have invoked this t

. >> my question as to the minister for defense representing the minister for foreign affairs. on friday you have the pop star rihanna tweet to the foreign ministry and prime minister has not strayed to give $200 million to a global partnership for education. the global partnership is headed by -- for foreign minister responded in kind emerges in all for another 90 million at the global partnership in the question to the foreign minister is, will this give taxpayers for good publicity or did you significantly back and think okay, -- >> minister representing the minister for foreign affairs. >> thank you very much, mr. president. i have spoken to advisors about the issue. an australian was already in the process of providing some support to the global group in question which had nothing to do with any social media of any sort, mr. president as i understand it. i have further information from the foreign minister. that is the case and the answer to the question. >> sender, supplemental question. >> thank you. australians are heading for $600 billion in estimates. hence number two

chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee thank you very much for joining us now is there thank you barbara back to you in london barnaby outside the houses of parliament barnaby thank you for that and now let's go to moscow zero jelena hull so what response are some russia so far to the measures announced by too easily. barbara so far fair to say that moscow seems to be pretty moved by all of this so gay lover of the foreign minister you may recall or earlier in the week dismissing the accusations against russia as a circus he now says that the u.k. is basically acting out of political drama here his foreign ministry has gone further calling it a gross provocation these measures by tourism a and a hostile move but we await of course russia's official response in kind likely to be a sort of tit for tat range of diplomatic expulsions possibly going further than that we don't know but in the meantime it's more targeted response is already happening in the public eye perhaps aimed at a domestic audience on state media you've got the speaker of the upper house of the federal council

democrat from philadelphia-based 13th district in pennsylvania, member of the house foreign affairs committee. we talked before when you came on about russian interference in the 2016 election. i wonder your thoughts as you're reading the president's twitter feed to see the president going after bob mueller and his team directly for the first time. >> what's really missing from the conversation is nothing has been done to prevent this from happening again in 2018. i'm from pennsylvania, one of the states we now know operatives of the russian government attempted to hack into our election system, pennsylvania we don't even have paper ballots so if someone were to hack into our election system, we'd be highly vulnerable. you had the top leadership in both the intelligence side and the defense side testify under oath that the president of the united states still hasn't given them an order to act in order to prevent what happened in 2016 from happening in 2018.

you mentioned i serve on the foreign affairs committee. at the state department, we have the majority of senior-level positions unfilled. the president was rolling out a new proposal with respect to the middle east some months ago that about recognizing jerusalem and a number of these countries we didn't have ambassadors on the ground to explain this position. so unfortunately the firing of the secretary of state and the humiliating way in which it was done was the latest in a continuation of chaos that started last january. >> congressman boyle with us. phones are open if you want to join the conversation. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. as i get your take on whether we're going to see another shut down come friday? >> no one wants that i would be surprised if we had another one. while i won't say never, i think it's highly unlikely. >> what's a deal breaker for you if it were included in the omnibus? >> i don't want to negotiate here or go into hypotheticals, we can talk about any specific issue or area but i do

not illegal he's a member of the senate of france and he's also a member of the commission on foreign affairs and defense forces welcome to you and the government is calling this incident a terrorist attack how can officials be so sure this is one well first of all. the terrorist claim that he was acting in the name of so cold i still send state and then probably has some command twenty inter-personal market so such as about or something like that. tom what has been report so and then hylas been send very quickly to the charge of terrorism cases so i think. yes it is and what we see the reaction and that's going to have any you heard about this incident you know is exactly the kind of incident as you say it's a terrorist attack it's a incident. which is absolutely not predictable you cannot imagine that one guy probably alone in the leto's down south of france will act and behave like that civil but nobody can predict it. what is security like in france because as i mentioned since two thousand and fifteen france has witnessed a whole series of attacks attacks terrorist. well we increased dem

from the western balkans to the middle east federica mocker raney is the high representative for foreign affairs for the a you that makes as close as the block has to a foreign minister she said on her way into the summit that she stands firmly in lockstep with london we will also obviously express our strongest possible solidarity with united kingdom after the attack in salzburg as well as we have done already with the foreign ministers on monday expressing clear sort of narrative and decided to stay focused on that together because the strongest political sign we can give is unity unity and unity but there are a number of other countries that are saying that if there to back more sanctions against russia are all there to take any further action or commit to a unified harsh statement by the e.u. that they are going to need to see more evidence from the british side understand the greek so all of those nations saying exactly that but when the european council president darrell to skin the e.u. commission president jiang claudio good took to the stage to field questions from journalists well they

i serve on the foreign command security -- foreign affairs committee. in the state department have the majority of senior-level positions unfilled. the president was rolling out a new proposal with respect to the middle east some months ago without recognizing -- about recognizing jerusalem. in a number of these company -- these countries we did not have ambassadors on the ground to explain this position. unfortunately the firing of the secretary of state in a humiliating way, is just the latest in a continuation of chaos that started last january. host: we have brendan boyle with us. ,202) 748-8001for republicans for democrats (202) 748-8000. for independents (202) 748-8002. are we going to see another shutdown on friday? guest: no one wants that. i would be very surprised. never say never, i think it is highly unlikely. host: what is a dealbreaker for you? i do not want to negotiate here are going to hypotheticals, we can talk about any specific issuer area, but i do not believe taxing 1 -- in boxing oneself and until you see were negotiations are goi

the country faces many challenges in some instances, per flexing foreign affairs, relationships and in other instances a serious national security threats. in these times your continued diligence and devotion to the state's department mission has never been more necessary. as you go about your duties, each of you carrying out your individual responsibilities as well as your collective duty, it is my hope that you will be guided by and test your actions each day against the values that we have spoken about over this past year. the safety and security of yourselves, your loved ones and colleagues. second, to maintain a commitment to accountability by holding yourselves accountable so that you are able to hold others accountable. and that the positive environment of accountability is underpinned by honesty and integrity in all that you do. never lose sight of your most valuable asset, the most valuable asset you possess. your personal integrity. not one of you was gifted it, you were born with it. it belongs to you. and always has and will belong to you and you alone. only you can relinqu

parliament's foreign affairs committee is photo data about the investigation into nicholai gross costs a specialist death oh well i don't know whether it's not time because that's all part of a part of the same isn't but it's certainly it certainly echoes doesn't it that we've got a pattern of russian violence and we're talking about the united kingdom at the moment of course because of the dramatic piece of aggression in salzburg that could of course have killed hundreds of people thank god it didn't but we've seen it all over all over europe and and possibly further afield and we've certainly seen the attempted murder of the prime minister only a year or so ago we've seen the invasion of ukraine the murder of hundreds of dosh and other citizens in the russian attack on the mh seventeen and even today as we're talking we're seeing russia supporting the use of chemical weapons and bombing of civilians by the hazard regime so we're seeing a very hostile very road russian regime that is using violence as a state policy and is using murder as a as a means of influencing outcomes. that's c

tom toucan had two chairs of the british parliament as foreign affairs committee. vladimir ashcroft is the london based executive director of the anti corruption foundation which is a russian a not for profit organization is a long time associate of russian opposition leader. outspoken putin critic critic alex like novelli. received political asylum in the u.k. in twenty fifty welcome to day doubly do you have any doubt that russia was behind the attempt on so i guess crippled life well definitely the choice of poison is highly sophisticated nerve agent or interruption of russia i think it will be some time until we know for sure when there was their own agent when it was it was ordered from the top of russian leadership or whether it was revenge for saying there st paul being endemol agent. so scripts all came to be in britain after a spy swap so one wonders what russia has to gain from killing him. i think it's so possible syria that it is to assent and massett to people who become enemies of russian state and the other possible theory is to send a signal to the

phil: that is the conservative mp who chairs the british parliament's foreign affairs committee. there is tension in germany's new government. the interior minister has said he does not consider islam to be part of germany. his boss, the chancellor angela merkel, made it clear she did not agree. reporter: germany's new interior minister rejects criticism of his remarks that although muslims who live here have a place in germany, islam does not. >> our country has been culturally influenced by christianity for hundreds of years. that is why it is wrong to say that islam belongs to germany. reporter: chancellor angela merkel disagrees, and she very quickly and publicly slapped down her interior minister and party ally. "4 million muslims who currently live in germany practice their religion, and they belong here just as much as their religion does." germany's new justice minister offered a reminder that freedom of religion is strictly protected in the constitution. "i think people are tired of these theoretical discussions about terminology. it is clear to everyone that we need pra

told me he worked for the minister forforeign affairs, told me he worked for the minister for foreign affairsr the minister for foreign affairs, he is from the military. then he started telling me about himself and we talked a bit about himself and we talked a bit about us, the 20 minutes we were standing there discussing with my wife, me and him and that guy was looking at us, this is rather strange. what did he say to you about himself? the main thing, he was telling a lot of things about his family, by the way, about his son, the death of his son, he was very joyful but son, the death of his son, he was veryjoyful but when he started speaking of his son and my wife asked him what had happened, whether it was cancer or asked him what had happened, whether it was cancer oi’ some asked him what had happened, whether it was cancer or some disease he said no, it was an unfortunate incident, he was in russia and he died, and the tears appeared in his eyes and we could see that it was a tragedy, real tragedy for him because i understand his son was also military. and he said his son had died in a

here is florida congressman ted deutsche, members of the foreign affairs committee. >> what we've seen from this white house and from this president throughout the administration is an unwillingness to listen to anyone. and going into a meeting like this and essentially taking this as if it's just some sort of real estate negotiation that the president can negotiate, that's not the way to achieve the results that are necessary. >> "the new york times" is reporting some white house aides are skeptical that this meeting will actually take place. joining me now is david kane, director and chair of the korean studies institute. david, your thoughts. do you think this summit is a good idea? >> actually, i am. i'm surprised at the amount of skepticism. it could have been done, sure, with more planning. but given that we've been worried about a war, we should try diplomacy. credit to the president for taking a step forward. >> where do you think the skepticism is come from? there are a lot of intelligent minds who are skeptical about this. >> the skepticism comes because north korea is not go

final thought, and this takes us away from specific foreign affairs to the future of your country.if you're interested in running again, but a lot of people are speculating about where the democrats are going to find a candidate capable of hitting donald trump in 2020. he is a man, like him or loathe him, who dominates the american political scene. and you can talk about your elizabeth warren or bernie sanders, but frankly, there doesn't seem to be anybody on the democrat side. how and where are the democrats going to find someone to beat donald trump? well, the good news is we have three years. the good news also is i believe that it's a — donald trump is not doing well with voters. he is going to be formidable, but i think the democratic party realises it can'tjust be a progressive, liberal party, that we have to talk about economic issues — like we did in pennsylvania, where a moderate, conservative democrat won, and we have been winning in a lot of elections recently. look, it's either going to be thejoe bidens, those candidates with experience, or a new face, but the good news

mr fluty but also today just because they came to your studio i met with the vice minister of foreign affairs mr bush go held a speech before the university of moscow where diplomats were trained and i used the venues that i had to send the message that. we should engage we should not only talk about capabilities you know if you watch at the speech of mr putin yesterday in the duma it was all about europe and re capabilities and of course and i understand the nato will do exactly the same this is how people react but we should start talking about intentions you know if you know anything about the world of security of intelligence you know that there are two things important the capabilities military capabilities but also the intentions you know you can a fairly small capabilities and with wrong intentions you can do a lot of you can have a lot of capabilities but with good intentions you can do almost no harm. and people don't know the west and russia we work on either side on building up more capabilities and we forget about talking about the intentions you know and i believe by visiting rus

involved and from russian politicians some colourful language including one from the chair of the foreign affairsmittee in the upper house saying this was a dirty and shabby game and saying this was effectively a gang of thugs in the schoolyard ganging up on an random victim and only ganging up because they were a gang. that is the way to seen among they were a gang. that is the way to seen among politicians here. the prince of wales has praised the lake district saying visiting the area makes his ‘spirits rise' as he unveiled a plaque declaring the area a world heritage site. speaking outside the ‘theatre by the lake' in keswick, he said the area was "a particularly special part of the world." last year the national park joined the taj mahal, the grand canyon and stonehenge on the list of areas with world heritage site status after being backed by a unesco committee. now — you've heard of a hundred and one dalmations — but how about 601 dachshunds? the sausage dogs and their owners gathered on perranporth beach in cornwall in an attempt to beat a record set on a south wales beach last year. 500

final thought, and this takes us away from foreign affairs to your country.id, i do not know if you a re interested has to be said, i do not know if you are interested in running again, but are interested in running again, but a lot of people are speculating about whether democrats are going to find candidates capable of hitting donald trump in 2020. he is a man who liked him or loathe him dominate the political scene. frankly, there does not seem to be anybody on the democrat side. how and where the democrats going to find someone to beat donald trump? well, the good news is we have three years. the good news also is i believe that it is, donald trump is not doing well with voters. he is going to be fermentable but i think the democratic party realises it cannot just be a progressive, liberal party, that we have to talk about economic issues, like we did in pennsylvania, we are moderate, conservative democrat one, and we have been winning in a lot of elections recently. it is either going to be candidates likejoe biden, or a new face, going to be candidates

parliament and former chair of the foreign affairs select committee and a member of that panel thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera to discuss this report this of all of the evidence you did i think approach the egyptian authorities they wouldn't let you in to visit the former president what have you based this report mostly all over then try to look at all the available evidence so there's. a transcript from mohamed morsy himself a trial in november twenty seventh teen where he gives an account of his health and his conditions then there are a number of reports from his family. and his lawyers of human rights watch reports honest international reports united states state department of course on saying he's in egypt the united kingdom government's human rights work so there's been a whole plethora of evidence all of which corroborates the general narrative which mohammed morsi was giving us is his trial which is a record of transcript no surprise i suppose that certainly the school pins units in tora prison has such a bad reputation we have some of our own colleagues who were h

or in in wartime talk and that is what is happening today it's a disgrace that our minister of foreign affairs at to step down the day he planned to go to visit mr lovell of russia because he lied about being an adult share with mr putin and because he lied about the fact that mr putin would have sat that he wanted to have a greater russia including kazakhstan even bella who was and ukraine and the baltic states and he had to step down because it was all lies it was all russophobia fake news and that's not how it will work if we need russia and america as an ally we should engage in responsible adult conversation you mentioned donald trump dhimmitude in the list don't trump because the media is very dangerous to believe what you read and hear in the media often but they regularly compare you with donald trump do you see any similarities to see big differences how do you ideologies can know maybe some of them speak about the hair i don't know whether it's true or not but now i'm not to be compared with donald trump or anybody else not because it would be insult or maybe a compliment but i'm my

of the en masse government and lawyers say it was very accusing her of has nothing to do with foreign affairs portfolio so isn't covered by the immunity protocol others in sydney protested the presence of viet nam's prime minister neutron folk and cambodia's leader one saying who's been accused of crushing the opposition and violating human rights there's not a strong an ambiguous message from the struggling government about sense crackdown in cambodia i think it's you know a big mistake for the government just so completely gloss over those issues or just deal with them quietly on the fringes they should be front and center of a summit like this police are not allowing protests right outside the convention center where the asean talks are happening but these protesters did get close as young ladies will be out of here these protests where they're meeting but it's unlikely they'll be talking about them too much but then the focus is on trade and security. australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull says he'll raise the range of prices with aung san suu kyi but his main focus on saturday was c

let's speak to the labour mp chris bryant, who is a member of the foreign affairs select committee.u for joining us. . this nerve agent, or nerve agents, they are complex and difficult to manufacturer. no criminal gang is going to be carrying this in a rucksack. it is highly likely that we are talking about a state or a country being involved in this, we not? indeed. i think things have moved on substantially from yesterday. i know a lot of people said this, yesterday we we re a lot of people said this, yesterday we were in the realm of let's not jump we were in the realm of let's not jump to conclusions, and agency that perpetrated that is another state, as far as perpetrated that is another state, as farasi perpetrated that is another state, as far as i know there is no non—state actor in the world that has access to nerve agents, british security services will be working out on the back of that with this is likely to have come from, and unfortunately, vladimir putin's track record is clear, he resorts to excessive violence very swiftly, and it's not only the two russian national

so when it's that that's an open dialogue is necessary and the minister of foreign affairs in russia has the ministry of foreign affairs and russia rather house released a statement on their website saying that they express strong protest in this decision taken by a number of members and it doesn't help in the said for the paper traitors of the incident and that they will respond soon but a reminder that chemical weapons body who are conducting the investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and now they we've seen a wave of expulsion following the u.k. prime minister's visit to brussels but we will bring you more official statements since we have them. thank you to both all correspondents but we have had a reaction from russia's foreign ministry with a statement protesting the expulsion of the diplomat saying the accusations against russia are unfounded. the u.k. defacto took a prejudiced biased and hypocritical stance producing indiscriminate accusations against the russian federation in the absence of explanations of what happened and refusi

briefed as the prime minister was for yesterday by the minister of a defense in the minister of foreign affairs. we will see what comes out of tomorrow m morning. she will chair another onene afr the deadline has passed. if there has been a satisfactory respsponse from the russianans, there is quite a vast array of possible sanctionsns. one is thehe expulsion of diplomats. it could go all the way up to the ambassador. k know about a total breaking off of ties with russia. there is a freezing of bank acacunts, of a assets. travel bans uncecertain russssin toizens, making it hararder come to the united kingdom to do business here. what she w wants is the e suppof alallies. it''s been f forthcoming from te u.s. secretary of state, forthcoming from the french president. i understand the foreign secretary forced johnson is feeling quite boisterous by some of the resplendent -- support he's been getting today. story, aeaking developingng story. there is a lot to lose for the russians. genie: thank you for that. also, france spoken out on the situation as well. if use of a military grade nerve agent i

bob seely is a member of the foreign affairs select committee.ow. we asked him why. they've used these weapons before the united kingdom and used them elsewhere and they used them often enough to become a significant part of their armoury for what used to be known as wet jobs, of their armoury for what used to be known as wetjobs, assassinations. so radiation poisoning but also done elsewhere as well, several cases in russia dioxins, ukrainian presidential candidate back in 2004 but others have also died from dioxin poisoning. i've been talking to people this afternoon about this case and some speculate if poisoner was used then we could be looking at italian, heavy metal which is difficult to detect and highly poisonous. it has been reporting today about the number of these hits in london, i think a huge investigation carried out by both lead and they said 14. do you think...? lead and they said 14. do you think. . . ? i'm lead and they said 14. do you think...? i'm not sure every lead and they said 14. do you think. . . ? i'm not sure every sin

through thecame department of foreign affairs.ck you about the representation of women on the public forum, like in government and 80 -- and the department of foreign affairs? geraldine: when we get a it will for our voices, be the big u.n. moment. when people leave new york after theyeeks of negotiations, go back to being female ambassadors at the u.n.. from the bottom up and the top down, efforts are being made. andle representation decision making and leadership is not where it should be. what is the prescription for helping out? we were doing a segment on sheryl sandberg. in some ways, things aren't any better five years after "been in -- "lean in". models androle mentoring are hugely important. standby the woman beside you and help her. intervention of some sort, we have seen in ireland in the last election a 40% increase in seeing female parliamentarians. part of that was from encouragement, insisting that parliamentary parties were equal. there is a huge increase in women running in the lower elections in the united states.

therefore russia was not interested in eliminating him and this head of the federation council's foreign affairs committee has also said that essentially what's going on in the u.k. is a provocation ahead of russia's presidential elections and the fee for world cup coming up in a in a couple of months we've also heard from a dewar deputy a parliamentarian called on lugovoy. now on lugovoy is actually one of the men wanted in the united kingdom for the murder of alexander litvinenko in two thousand and six poisoned with polonium two ten he was never extradited to the u.k. but was actually made a deal with deputy now he says that the u.k. prime minister's hasty statement that a substance used to poison scripture was developed in russia is irresponsible to say the least considering the sensitivities there are of course in the u.k. about the living yanker case this i think amounts to basically fairly high level trolling from russia's duma to the u.k. parliament. a rebel group operating in syria's eastern ghouta enclave says it's allowing wounded people to be evacuated jaisha islam says it struck a u

parliament foreign affairs committee says the poisoning of former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted. treason by discussing the case at a national security council meeting that's just got underway. like a scrap pile on his door to you know are in a critical condition after falling unconscious in the city of cold rain. at least thirty eight people have been killed in a plane crash in the polls the capital the wreckage is on the failed at the edge of kathmandu is apple's plane belonged to a private bangladeshi carry us banga deposit from dhaka lives landing in the pool of capital when it crashed was the biggest is joining us now from katmandu apple she's on the phone sabina what we know about the situation. so many talking to one of the people who actually started. between trying to lead a very. trying to bob good. morning to the benchtop. it didn't make tell you visited one of the towers and it aborted the landing and like second time around and it kind of just. passes on the plane. at the airport as a just. as good as a lot of people a lot of ambulances and i was told that

ijust had a meeting in the russian ministry of foreign affairs.his crisis has arisen as a result of an appalling act in the united kingdom, the attempted murder of two people using a chemical weapon developed in russia, and not to cleared by russia to the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, as russia is obliged to do. earlier this week, the prim minister set out in parliament a number of measures that we took and are taking to defend ourselves against this kind of attack. we gave russia the opportunity to explain how the material got to salisbury, and we asked russia to declare that material, that capability to the organisation for the provision of a chemical weapons. russia did neither, therefore we announced several steps. russia today have informed me of the steps that russia will be taking in response to that. as our prime minister made clear in parliament, we have no dispute with the russian people, a very large pa rt the russian people, a very large part of the work of my embassy here in russia has been to promote those lin

how do you talk about the issue of maintaining spending on foreign affairs to your constituents at home. >> this is really timely question because we have the budget right before us coming up. i thoroughly believe that congress will stand up. put the money in the budget that was promised out of the memorandum of understanding to fully fund our commitment to aid to israel. that's the first part. the second thing is the foreign aid in general. i so appreciate the jewish community standing up for foreign aid in the bleakest time. i think part of that is no one better than the jewish community can make the case for refugees since israel was a haven for refugees since the beginning. secondly, as we look at how when we have many people that would like to cut off nearly all of foreign aid, how we make that argument. first is national security. i think it was secretary mattis that said the more you cut the statement department, the more ammunition i have to buy. there's a clear relationship between a strong military and strong foreign aid. he and i decided to make the point at home by doing an

in fact, the ministry of foreign affairs was asked a few minutes ago was the north korean leader in beijing. her reply is i have no idea. we have to wait and see. >> plausible deniability. >>> the father of the pulse nightclub shooter was an informant for the fbi. now he is being investigated for payments overseas just before the attack. racing isn't the only and with godaddy, i'm making my ideas real. with godaddy you can get a website to sell online. and it will look good. i made my own way. now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working just like it should ♪ >>> good morning. 16 minutes past the hour. the fbi has permission of several locations in the washington, d.c. area. a law enforcement official tells cnn more than ten devices are involved and crudely made with black powder. none powerful enough for fatalities. one package sent to the national defense at ft. mcnair had explosive material. scanning the packages are examined in quantico, virginia. >>> the ethics inquiry targeting jared kushner. this stems from the meetings at the white house where the kushner companies were loan

it was at a foreign affairs select committee yesterday, discussing whether or not the uk should boycotts vladimir putin is just like hitler. what did he say? it began last week with ian austin, the labourmp,john last week with ian austin, the labour mp, john woodcott, and others, all saying we should boycott the world cup due to safety concerns. this might have happened a nyway concerns. this might have happened anyway without the sergey —— sergei skripal case. last week boris johnson said it is overwhelmingly likely vladimir putin ordered the assassination. the question i would ask of all of this is will the comparison with hitler helped or hindered the endgame, and what is the endgame? these comparisons do not help to build the international co—ordination you have seen theresa may tried to build. are his emotion is taking over? and with the world cup coming up in russia, the olympics in germany, it was the use ofan olympics in germany, it was the use of an international sporting events to try to paper over what is really going on in the background, that kind of thing, did he mean that

but the -- there were other issues that developed, too, ovew foreign affairs, for example. and the french late in the war when -- seward apologized, virtually, to the french minister that the house of representatives was trying to take over radicals in the house henry who went to davis who chaired the committee, tried to take over foreign relations from the president. that was beaten down, ultimately. but seward had said that, oh, don't worry about it. don't worry. told the french this. this was with regard to mexico, where most people wanted u.s. forces to -- after the war to move into mexico and get rid of the french. but the republicans, not just the radicals, did not appreciate seward i for that -- for saying that to the minister. and it's documented, i think, too. okay. do we have -- let's see. one more question, i believe. >> professor harris, thanks. you mentioned the joint committee on the conduct of the war. do you think that washa a good thing, a bad thing? a mixture? what are your views on the joint committee? >> right. lincoln did not think it was a good thing.

deemed necessary for him and his daughter mr speaker this morning the conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee said i'd be surprised if the prime minister did not point the finger at the kremlin yodel members of tonbridge and molding also accuse the russian government to behaving in an aggressive and corrupting way in this country. mr speaker we need to continue seeking a robust dialogue with russia on all the issues currently dividing our countries both domestic and international rather than simply causing off contact and letting the tensions and divisions get worse and potentially even more dangerous and mr speaker we're all familiar with the way huge fortunes often acquired in the most dubious circumstances in russia sometimes connected with criminal vatican's have ended up sheltering in london and trying to buy political influence in british party politics. meddling in elections as the prime minister portage. has and there has been over eight hundred thousand pounds worth of donations to the conservative party to the conservative party from russian oligarchs and their associates.

the presidents duty -- he has free reign over foreign affairs. and you saw this in front of you, if you are old enough to remember, bush 41. the first bush. he wanted -- let me go a little more recent. it will be more memorable. president clinton wanted health care. we called it hillary care. never got it because the congress would not give it to him. he realized in his second term that he could do whatever he wanted in terms of foreign affairs. he did not do anything earlier. what he did do, either way -- we had military action in bosnia, in kosovo. he sent the navy to haiti. he bombed saddam hussein's iraq for two days and two nights. he realized he could do all of this. do you think he told congress about this? we all agree that he did not. for kosovo, there was not one congressperson that said they knew anything about it. more recently, bush 43 could not get social security reform. he could not get immigration reform. but if he wanted to send troops to afghanistan, he did that. and if you wanted military action in iraq, he did it. i will just

joe biden of who basically says that the ministry of foreign affairs here will have to respond essentially in mind and british diplomats will be going home very soon possibly more british diplomats going home and leaving russia than the u.k. has kicked out of russian diplomats going back to moscow we have also heard from the spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs and there is a quarter of a who has posted on facebook and her facebook statement basically that was defending her boss from attacks that she thought to reason may have launched against him now of course of course is a lot of rove now she says it's not up to british prime minister to reason made to pass judgment on the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to reason she says lavrov is a russian minister not a british one and it's the russian president who evaluates him on the stand that you would like to think otherwise but your minister is boris johnson ok thanks very much. let's go back to that top story for you this thousands of students and teachers across the u.s. are walking out of their classrooms they've walked.

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jean—claude juncker and that is interesting, the eu seems to want to push into a military style fair —— foreign affairsthe human story of salisbury, the police officer who has been in hospital now discharged, nick bailey, saying life will never be the same for him. extraordinary thing to go to, —— to go through, he was just thing to go to, —— to go through, he wasjust an thing to go to, —— to go through, he was just an ordinary policemen responding to a call from the public, but he has been in hospital for a few weeks now, and it has been reported that the double agent and his daughter might have permanent brain damage, so he is lucky to get out of this alive. but this has also shifted the whole debate in terms of the public interest because this was a serving police officer who was affected by this, slightly different cases in the past where it was russia against the uk, this was an incident which affected one of our serving police officers. michael, the financial times, donald trump and the beginning of what some see asa and the beginning of what some see as a trade war targeting robots and drugs in